He then offers three suggestions to keep local kids safe, the first being to train teachers with the help of police and firefighters on what to do in an active-shooter situation, as they do with fire and earthquake drills.

That's actually a pretty damn good idea, as is Reeve's third suggestion: improve fencing around the entire perimeter of schools, keep all gates locked except for one central entry point and have only one entry to classrooms, which would remain locked while in session.

Brilliant!

It's the suggestion Reeve has sandwiched between those two that is sure to raise eyebrows:

Arm willing staff, teachers and/or parents. Alternatively hire armed security:
There exists an understandable emotional response that if we just prevent firearms from
being on campus, no shootings will ever occur. This attitude is tragically naïve. Someone
intent on murdering dozens of children has no fear of a sign informing him that bringing
a firearm to school is a felony. Every mass shooting in recent history has occurred in a
"gun free zone." These shooters tend to cower from armed confrontation and commit
suicide as soon as they are confronted by armed resistance.

Reeve notes the first option would not cost anything because willing teachers and volunteers would already have firearms and, presumably, the correct training on how to use them. The councilman adds that securing firearms in classrooms would be easy, a dubious claim, given schools can't even keep the smart kids from hacking into computers to change grades.

Anyway, he says the alternative would be hiring campus guards, which he acknowledges would cost money but, in any event, he demands they be armed.

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Why is there such economic stress? Why is treatment on the job so shitty? The same reason that:

Our society apparently values gun manufacturer profits more than the lives of children.

Our society apparently values medical insurance company profits more than the lives of the sick.

Our society apparently values gas driller profits more than the lives of people who drink groundwater in fracking areas.

Our society apparently values coal and oil company profits more than the lives of future generations.

Capitalists, by definition, squeeze every ounce of profit out of their businesses. They love and help create an excess pool of labor to produce exactly the effects that Welsh describes. They treat their workers like shit because they view them as an expense to be reduced, not as human beings to be treated as they would like to be treated themselves.

Beyond that, Capitalists will buy media, professors and politicians so that they ability to screw workers, cheat consumers and destroy the environment will be completely unfettered. They are a source of corruption and ignorance in our society.

Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a sickness that exalts the depraved and tortures and kills the innocent.Treat the cause, not the symptoms.

What might you look like if you had Spinal Muscular Dystrophy? Without the use of your hands and feet, would you have graduated from law school like Mr. Reeve has? He is one amazing human being. You sound like you are handicap-phobic. Disgusting!